January 8 (21), 1918

Comrade Stark!

On the basis of a communication from comrade Radek,¹ I request that you contact comrade Shotman (member of the collegium of posts and telegraphs)² regarding the provision of radio for the most important communications of the PTA⁴.

Lenin

¹ Radek—a member of the collegium of the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs.

² Shotman—a Bolshevik who worked in the postal and telegraph service in the early period of Soviet power.

³ The collegium of posts and telegraphs—the governing body of the People's Commissariat of Posts and Telegraphs.

⁴ PTA—abbreviation for the Russian telegraph agency (Petrogradskoe telegrafnoe agentstvo).